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Understanding Absolute Infinity - Part 2

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Jul 24, 2017
A sweeping tour of infinity from Cantor’s set theory and diagonalization to the idea of multiple infinities. Historical threads link Bruno, Plotinus, Pythagoreans and Kabbalah to visions of the Absolute. Literary and mystical images like Borges’ Aleph and a personal epiphany explore how mind, God and reality might unite. Warnings about conceptual traps and advice on inner practice round out the conversation.
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PreSocratics Anticipated Absolute Infinity

  • Ancient Greeks like Anaximander and Anaxagoras posited the Apeiron (boundless) as the origin, foreseeing infinite generation and dissolution.
  • These pre-Socratic ideas map closely to modern nonduality and infinite-world concepts.
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Greek Mystics Framed Unity With Paradox

  • Heraclitus and Pythagoreans described unity and an originating Monad that spawns multiplicity, using paradoxical metaphors like the circle.
  • These fragments treat the One as both everywhere and nowhere, prefiguring later mystical nonduality.
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Plotinus On The One Beyond Thought

  • Plotinus taught the One is formless, the source of being yet beyond being, always greater than any concept.
  • He used paradox: the One is everywhere and nowhere, producing multiplicity while transcending thought.
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